Okay, this chapter actually gave me an idea that is completely insane but it’s fun to speculate and think about. Again all speculation and I don’t actually think it’s true but I wanted to express the thoughts.
So, Minamoto called MC a maniac for thinking the world is BL. And obviously it’d be easy to say he’s just not as self aware as MC is. However, what if Minamoto is right? Think about, we mostly follow MC’s pov and from said view we are witness to all these BL troupes and instances. But, what if our MC is an unreliable narrator.
He discovered some time during school (either middle or high school I can’t remember) that this is a BL world and he noticed this because of multiple things like the guys being really attractive and all the girls faces are blurry.
That’s what he says, but what if and big if, the reason he sees things this way is because he isn’t attracted to girls and is attracted to guys. And his way of coming to this realization is complete denial and convincing himself it’s a BL world and that’s why he sees things this way.
I would also like to suggest that while yes he has met guys that were attracted to him there has been an instance where a girl also found him attractive. So if we’re gonna say that the world is throwing guys at him to be paired with then the world was also trying to pair him with a girl and it’s own fault it didn’t happen.
Now again, this is complete wild speculation and I don’t think it’s true since this is a comedy manga I don’t think anything like that is what’s happening. I just enjoying theorizing wild shit, it’s just fun for me.
I enjoy this idea quite a lot!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember a chapter where it was shown MC was so preoccupied thinking about how to avoid BL flags that he completely ignored girls who were interested in him? So I think it at least holds some water.
My other idea is that maybe he's not entirely wrong about it being a BL world, but it might just be HIS world that's filled with BL to that degree. We've seen supernatural things happen, like the mindreader, so maybe the MC just has the power of BL and his presence trigger flags to happen lmao
So this was extremely uncomfortable this chapter. Like wtf that’s truly all I can manage, I really loved this manhwa and it’s way of writing the bully stories were great but this is just horrible. I know that racism is a problem that happens in everyday life and in schools and I think the idea/concept of wanting to handled that topic is good but not like this, not all. Wtf.
Part of me wants to hold out hope that the new guy (can’t remember his name right now) is actually like a twist bad guy and it’s maybe like a plot point on that corrupt and bad people could get into TRPA. But just based on the language used in the chapter, the character designs, the set up, and by the literal panel that was included and written it’s not gonna be that.
True Education has been a good ride for awhile but it has come to an end. I just can’t comprehend how the author in any way believed this would work or was justified, like HOW did they think this was a good idea.
I’m gonna stay with this just in hopes of 1. Felix and Uriel won’t actually end up together (limited I know) and 2. I wanna know what’s up with Brandon, honestly the potential side story/couple has more of my attention it usually does